While claimants continue to fie private civil actions seeking to recover damages they claim to have sustained as a result of the Libor manipulation scandal, the fact is that at least up to this point, the plaintiffs have not fared particularly well in the Libor-related civil litigation. View Full Post

On March 14, 2014, In the latest development in the long-running saga of the Libor scandal, the FDIC in its capacity as receiver of 38 banking institutions that failed between 2008 and 2011, has filed a massive new lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against the U.S. View Full Post

NCUA Files Libor Manipulatoin Antitrust Suit: Even though the federal judge presiding over the consolidated Libor antitrust litigation has granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the antitrust claims, the federal credit union regulatory agency has filed a new action against Libor rate-setting banks alleging violation of the Sherman Act. View Full Post

In a May 13, 2013 order (here), Southern District of New York Judge Shira Scheindlin granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the Libor-scandal related securities suit that had been filed against Barclays and two of its former executives following the company’s entry into a massive Libor-related settlement last summer. View Full Post

When Southern District of New York Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald entered her order in the consolidated Libor litigation on March 29, 2013, she dismissed the plaintiffs’ antitrust and RICO claims against the Libor rate-setting banks, and she also declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the plaintiffs’ state law claims, which she dismissed without prejudice. View Full Post

On March 29, 2013, in a ruling that she acknowledged some might find to be “unexpected” in light of the substantial regulatory fines and penalties that some of the defendants have paid, Southern District of New York Naomi Reice Buchwald granted the defendants’ motions to dismiss the antitrust and RICO claims in the consolidated Libor-based antitrust litigation. View Full Post